bulk-widget-updates

A tool for finding and changing the same widget property across multiple pages or snippets in a project. A widget is a reusable page element, such as a container or combo box.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for cross-page widget updates after building the full catalog. The workflow requires a dry run first and a project backup because it is experimental.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating the same page-by-page edit and helps prevent omissions when many matching widgets need one change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mendixlabs/mxcli/bulk-widget-updates
Any agent
npx skills add mendixlabs/mxcli --skill bulk-widget-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mendixlabs/mxcli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,281 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.01281
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00128

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6496fc55bd52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bulk-widget-updates scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/mendix/bulk-widget-updates/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bulk Widget Property Updates

EXPERIMENTAL: These commands are an untested proof-of-concept. Always use dry run first and backup your project before applying changes.

Use show widgets and update widgets to discover and modify widget properties across pages and snippets in bulk.

When to use which tool:

Scope Tool
One page, one or several related changes alter page — see alter-page
Many pages matched by WHERE filter (across one or more modules) update widgets (this skill)

alter page is the right call for targeted, page-specific edits — it can combine set/insert/drop/replace in a single block. update widgets is for cross-page patterns like "set Class on every Container in MyMod" where naming each page explicitly would be tedious or error-prone.

Prerequisites

Widget commands require a full catalog build:

refresh catalog full;

SHOW WIDGETS - Discover Widgets

Basic Usage

-- Show all widgets
show widgets;

-- Filter by module
show widgets in MyModule;

-- Filter by widget type (case-insensitive LIKE)
show widgets where widgettype like '%combobox%';

-- Filter by name
show widgets where Name = 'myGrid';

-- Combine filters
show widgets where widgettype like '%DataGrid%' and Name like '%Overview%' in MyModule;

Output Columns

Column Description
NAME Widget name (may be auto-generated)
WIDGET TYPE Full widget type ID (e.g., com.mendix.widget.web.combobox.Combobox)
CONTAINER Page or snippet qualified name
MODULE Module name

Common Widget Type Patterns

Pattern Matches
%combobox% ComboBox widgets
%datagrid% DataGrid2 and related widgets
%textbox% TextBox widgets
%dropdown% DropDown widgets
%gallery% Gallery widgets

UPDATE WIDGETS - Modify Properties

Syntax

update widgets
  set 'propertyName' = value [, 'propertyName' = value ...]
  where condition [and condition ...]
  [in module]
  [dry run];

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 206 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 6496fc55bd52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bulk-widget-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository mendixlabs/mxcli (115 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,281 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.